I can send Toast notifications with buttons just fine, but when I add an image it seems to balk and just put up a generic "New Notification" box without the text, buttons or image.

The xml looks like:

<toast><visual><binding template='ToastGeneric'><text>My Main Line Notification</text><text>My additional line of details.</text><image placement='appLogoOverride' hint-crop='circle' src='ms-appdata:///local/info48x48.png'/></binding></visual><actions><action content="Button1" arguments="0" /><action content="Button2" arguments="1" /></actions></toast>

I copied a .png file named info48x48.png to several locations to try:

%APPDATA%\..\local\NameOfExeWithoutExtension
%APPDATA%\..\local\NameOfShortutThatShowsInTitle
%APPDATA%\..\local\AppId.The.One.With.Dots
%APPDATA%\..\local\packages\AppId.The.One.With.Dots

but alas, it doesn't like something about the XML above. This works (removed image):

<toast><visual><binding template='ToastGeneric'><text>My Main Line Notification</text><text>My additional line of details.</text></binding></visual><actions><action content="Button1" arguments="0" /><action content="Button2" arguments="1" /></actions></toast>

1. Any ideas what has gone wrong
2. Does the XML look correct for the image?
3. Where exactly does ms-appdata:///local/ point to?

TIA!!

I can send Toast notifications with buttons just fine, but when I add an image it seems to balk and just put up a generic "New Notification" box without the text, buttons or image.

The xml looks like:

<toast><visual><binding template='ToastGeneric'><text>My Main Line Notification</text><text>My additional line of details.</text><image placement='appLogoOverride' hint-crop='circle' src='ms-appdata:///local/info48x48.png'/></binding></visual><actions><action content="Button1" arguments="0" /><action content="Button2" arguments="1" /></actions></toast>

I copied a .png file named info48x48.png to several locations to try:

%APPDATA%\..\local\NameOfExeWithoutExtension
%APPDATA%\..\local\NameOfShortutThatShowsInTitle
%APPDATA%\..\local\AppId.The.One.With.Dots
%APPDATA%\..\local\packages\AppId.The.One.With.Dots

but alas, it doesn't like something about the XML above. This works (removed image):

<toast><visual><binding template='ToastGeneric'><text>My Main Line Notification</text><text>My additional line of details.</text></binding></visual><actions><action content="Button1" arguments="0" /><action content="Button2" arguments="1" /></actions></toast>

1. Any ideas what has gone wrong
2. Does the XML look correct for the image?
3. Where exactly does ms-appdata:///local/ point to?

TIA!!

• xml
• winapi
• notifications
• toast

• ms-appdata: is documented on MSDN: URI Schemes: ms-appdata. ms-appdata:///local/ would be your system's %APPDATA%\Local folder. – Remy Lebeau Commented Feb 6 at 3:38

1 Answer 1

Thankfully, it turns out you can use the file scheme:

file:///C:/Path/To/Your/Image.png"